Word: bombers
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According to Chris Hatcher, a psychologist at the University of California, San Francisco, the personality of the arsonist or bomber, rather than the mass murderer, may be the most appropriate model for understanding the Tylenol murderer. "Other killers," he says, "have a certain satisfaction in stalking their victims. But this is a much more technically oriented crime; the killer does not perceive as clearly the actual death of his victims." Who gets killed appears to be a matter of indifference. Even gunmen like Charles Whitman, who killed 16 people from his perch in a Texas tower in 1966, have more...
...striking out against a particular type of victim, but an impersonal object or institution. According to Dr. Daniel Blazer, associate professor of psychiatry at Duke University School of Medicine, he may be a "disgruntled employee" with a "deep sense of being wronged." Like Mad Bomber George Metesky, who nursed a grievance against his former employer, Consolidated Edison, for more than 20 years, the Tylenol killer may be attempting to right matters according to his own perverted sense of justice and morality. He may even be trying to demonstrate the danger of buying pills over the counter. Says Blazer...
...ruminations get to you. No, the Tylenol case is not quite like the Son of Sam killings or the Mad Bomber or the Atlanta murders, and not only because these latest deaths are more random. There is something about the will involved, the you involved, plucking the particular little pill box that your hand has settled on, then standing politely in a row, ready to pay for your medicine. The trouble with poison is that you take it yourself, even when the murderer has spiked the gum on the envelope or when a Borgia has switched the wine...
...little concern about the poor, students, the afflicted. He has oversupplied the military with funding for the kinds of weapons they have been requesting for 15 or 20 years and other Presidents have refused. Not only is it unnecessary, it is an improper allocation of priorities. The B-l bomber is a waste of money. The densepack MX missile system seems ridiculous to me. I am concerned too that the nonproliferation effort has fairly well been abandoned...
...differed hardly a what from what the Administration had first requested--a symbolic 1 percent overall reduction, and a reneval of a $54 billion authorization for nerve gas production, were the only cuts which the House made without the approval of the White House. The white elephant B-1B bomber, the first-strike Trident 2 and Pershing 2 minutes, an unjustifiable and essentiatly priced MX missle, and a thoroughly absurd and unworkable "civil defense" program were all approved Apparently many legislators see no incousistency in throwing symbolic but meaningless sops to the messive nucleat freeze movement and then fleefully voting...